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Ebenezer (given name)

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Ebenezer, less commonly spelled Ebenezar, is a male given name of Hebrew origin meaning "Stone of the help" (derived from the phrase "Eben ha-Ezer"). The name is sometimes abbreviated as Eben.

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List of people with the given name Ebenezer

  • Ebenezer Adams (1765–1841), American educator
  • Ebenezer Ako-Adjei (1916–2002), Ghanaian politician
  • Ebenezer Allen (1743–1806), American patriot
  • Ebenezer Assifuah (born 1993), Ghanaian football player
  • Ebenezer Beesley (1840–1906), writer and composer of Mormon religious music
  • Ebenezer Cooke (disambiguation), several people
  • Ebenezer Erskine (1680–1754), Scottish minister
  • Ebenezer Ekuban (born 1976), American football player
  • Ebenezer B. Finley (1833–1916), American Congressman
  • Ebenezer Fontes Braga (born 1969), Brazilian mixed martial artist
  • Ebenezer Albert Fox (1857–1926), English poacher
  • Ebenezer Howard (1850–1928), British urbanist
  • Ebenezer Mack (1791–1849), New York politician
  • Ebenezer Cobb Morley (1831–1924), English sportsman
  • Ebenezer Obey (born 1942), Nigerian pop musician
  • Ebenezer Prout (1835-1909), English musical theorist, writer, teacher, and composer - best known for his textbooks on music theory
  • Ebenezer Rhodes (1762–1839), English topographer
  • Ebenezer Russell (1747–1836), New York politician

    • Fictional characters

  • Ebenezer Scrooge, fictional character in Charles Dickens' 1843 story A Christmas Carol.
  • Ebenezer Le Page, the chief protagonist and fictional author of The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards.
  • Ebenezer Blackadder, Blackadder character from Victorian England, introduced in 1988
  • Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, character in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel Kidnapped
  • Ebenezer Loomer (Ebby), One of the two villains (along with his brother Jacob) in the 19th Famous Five book by Enid Blyton, Five Go to Demon's Rocks
  • Ebenezar McCoy, character from The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher.

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